If you’re about to present your folio at a review event, you might be wondering how to make the most of a 15-20 minute session with someone you’ve never met before, but you’d desperately like to work with. So much pressure! I’ve been asked this LOTS recently as we approach the CAPIC Portfolio Speed Review in Vancouver
If you’re a lens based image maker you are probably far too busy shooting personal and paid work (and don’t even mention all those estimates and treatments) to produce any kind of marketing content. And other times you’re juggling family, house reno’s, yada yada. (#life) But have you ever considered batching? As I write this
Over the last 2 weeks I’ve been neck deep in Blitzes. In the process I’ve hurtled down ski slopes, tasted the dust at rodeos in Idaho, and brushed past starched silk on models at New York Fashion Week. I’ve felt the warmth of the sun on my face in the Australian Outback and the cool
This is my phrase of the week. Credit for it comes from a photographer I work with, who was grumbling about marketing. “I hate marketing.” he said. “I just want to make great images.” (Which he does, a lot.) As I pointed out to him, if you’re a photographer, your number one marketing tool IS
A few weeks ago I wrote about the importance of sharing your work right from conceptual stage. (You can read that here) It’s a no-brainer that the more people that see your work, the more visible you become. But sometimes no matter how much you share, the results can be pathetic. No replies. No jobs.
Do you have a client attraction process? If you’re a professional or commercial photographer you most likely do have something in place. Maybe it’s a little ineffective at the moment. But worse still it might actually be attracting the clients you don’t want. You know, those people and companies who have no clue about good photography, or
Recently a photographer showed me the prototype of a book he’d had designed. It was full of gorgeous images from an award winning story he’d shot in Thailand. That would have been wonderful but instead of a clean background there were strange textures and patterns printed on the page beside the images which threatened to
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